Farmworker/laborer

Job description

Worker will be required to complete the following activities as directed by supervisor: hoe or pull weeds; hook up and repair irrigation; general repairs, clean and sanitize harvest buckets, bags, bins, and equipment; conduct pruning activities; conduct various farm and field clean up tasks such as raking brush, picking up rocks and roots and mowing grass on farm property; routine general repairs and maintenance of farm equipment and irrigation; operate trucks, tractors or other agricultural equipment such as forklifts on farm premises only; spray crops with tractor and spray attachment on farm premises only; hand harvest to quality standards apples; packing activities of Employer's produce only according to specifications; and apple general labor, including thinning, removing suckers or unwanted growths, trunk painting, planting trees, tying limbs and trees, and other general orchard maintenance and clean-up.

Other duties assigned under this order will be consistent under Bureau of Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classification: Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery and Greenhouse Workers (45-2092)

Special Requirements

Experience Requirement: 3 month(s) verifiable experience in commercial tree fruit hand harvest required. Applicants must furnish job references from employers of the last 3 years establishing acceptable prior experience.

Job requires worker to complete tasks in General Farm Labor for Apples. Employer will provide instructions and training on specific job duties.

Drug testing done at employer's expense and not utilized as preemployment tool.

Season Commitment: Job offered requires worker be available for work for entire employment period.

Minimum Productivity/Performance Standards: Worker must possess requisite physical strength and endurance to repeat harvest process throughout workday. Worker must work at sustained pace and make good faith efforts to work efficiently as reasonable under working conditions.